TODAY’S RADIO

Desert Island Discs

11.15AM, RADIO 4

Kirsty Young’s castaway this week is journalist Christina Lamb, the chief foreign correspondent for The Sunday Times. She has also written eight books, including I Am Malala, the story of young Afghan girl Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by the Taliban but survived and went on to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014. Christina has reported on some horror stories from around the world so she’s probably relishing the chance to listen to her eight favourite songs on a desert island.

Johnnie Walker’s Sounds Of The 70s

3PM, RADIO 2

Carl Palmer took drumming lessons when he was just a boy, and could only just reach the high-hat. By the time he was a teenager, he was a highly reckoned percussion session player, and has gained during his long career the reputation of being ‘the drummer’s drummer’. Carl, who co-founded Emerson, Lake & Palmer in the 1970s, joins Johnnie to look back on that decade.

Open Book

4PM, RADIO 4

An affluent Parisian couple hire a nanny who has impeccable references, but find they have brought a murderer into their home. Mariella Frostrup talks to the novelist Leila Slimani, whose novel Lullaby has been a Continental bestseller.

Words & Music

5.30PM, RADIO 3

W.B. Yeats’s poem The Second Coming was written in 1919, and is redolent of the turmoil of those times. It speaks of things falling apart, and warns of terrible approaching events. It’s a poem that always seems grimly relevant, but the election of Donald Trump has seen the poem quoted with increasing frequency. Yeats’s poem is included in this brooding selection of music, poetry and prose on the theme of dystopia. Samantha Bond and Tobias Menzies are the readers.

Clare Teal

9PM, RADIO 2

Clare presents her weekly show of swing and big band music. She’ll be joined by journalist and broadcaster Bel Mooney, who talks about her favourite music, and about the advice she gives to troubled souls in the Daily Mail.

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Samantha Bond (5.30pm, R3)